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August 25, 2012 17:00

• Minister Sefer Aliev answers questions of Dagestani bloggers about land privatization

  In the social network "Facebook", the group "Dagestan on-line" held an online-conference with the Sefer Aliev, Minister of Land and Property Relations of Dagestani Government. The conference discussed the issue of the introduction of private ownership of land. The participants of the conference also discussed the consequences that may occur as a result of land conflicts and ignoring of national interests in the "land" issues.

August 25, 2012 16:00

• Brazil donates 100,000 US dollars to help children of Armenia

  The government of Brazil has donated 100,000 US dollars to the UNICEF representative office in Armenia to improve the nutrition of children.

August 25, 2012 15:00

• Case against persons who surrendered under guarantees of adaptation commission returned to prosecutor's office in Dagestan

  At the trial against seven residents of Dagestan, who passed the adaptation commission of militants, the Supreme Court of Dagestan returned the case to the prosecutor's office at the request of lawyers in connection with the fact that the defendants did not receive copies of the indictment.

August 25, 2012 14:00

• Batumi residents not happy with neighbourhood with poor oil pipeline

  In the dwelling settlement of Bartskhana in Batumi, the Mayoralty's technical service produces repair works on an abandoned oil pipeline and eliminates the consequences of the oil spill in the Black Sea. The residents of the dwelling settlement of Bartskhana are indignant being at neighbourhood with the faulty oil pipeline and complain about the inconveniences.

August 25, 2012 13:00

• North-Ossetian communists condemn demolition of Lenin monument in Mozdok

  On August 24, at a rally in the city of Mozdok, members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) demanded to condemn unsanctioned demolition of the Lenin monument, committed on August 23, as an act of vandalism.

August 25, 2012 12:00

• State of persons, wounded by explosion in Ingushetia and hospitalized in Moscow, remains grave but stable

  Two officers of the battalion of the patrol-and-post service, wounded in a terror act in Ingushetia, are at resuscitation ward, the other victims are at the trauma and surgical departments of the Chief Clinical Hospital of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in Moscow. Their condition, given the gravity of their numerous wound, is serious but stable. This was stated by Medical Colonel Alexander Panevin, the deputy head of the hospital on medical care.

August 24, 2012 23:00

• Lyudmila Alekseeva receives Natalia Estemirova Award

  Today in Vladikavkaz, where the third interregional forum of rights defenders of Northern Caucasus is being held, Lyudmila Alekseeva, the head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, was awarded the premium named after Natalia Estemirova – "Person of Honour and Conscience", the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

August 24, 2012 22:00

• Boy of 11 attacked by dogs in Adygea

  Near the village of Prirechny, Maikop District of Adygea, two big Rottweiler dogs attacked an 11-year-old child and heavily bit him. The boy was hospitalized in grave condition with multiple bites and lacerations. Now his life is out of danger, said a doctor from the Republic's Children Hospital.

August 24, 2012 21:00

• Shamil Abdurashidov kidnapped in Dagestan, said his brother

  In Makhachkala, unidentified armed men in camouflage and masks have beaten and kidnapped Shamil Abdurashidov, 33, the director of the subsidiary enterprise "Dagselkhozkhimiya", his brother Khizri Abdurashidov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

August 24, 2012 20:00

• Athlete from Adygea went to London to take part in Paralympic Games

  Valery Ponomarenko, a resident of Adygea and a champion of the Beijing Paralympic Games 2008 in shooting, is a member of the Russian delegation to London to the 14th Paralympic Games.

August 24, 2012 19:00

• "Green Party" abandons parliamentary elections in Georgia in favour of "Georgian Dream"

  The oppositional "Green Party" will not participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections in Georgia, since it believes that the "Georgian Dream", the oppositional coalition of businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, has more chances to win. This was announced today by Georgy Gachechiladze, the party leader.

August 24, 2012 18:00

• Russian doctors in mobile teams examine residents of Abkhazia

  During more than two weeks, Russian brigades, equipped with all-terrain vehicles, necessary supplies and medical equipment for conducting radiation and laboratory examinations, ultrasound and electrocardiogram, carried out clinical examination of the population of the Gali District of Abkhazia. At present, the mobile transport hospital is deployed in the town of Ochamchira and it already conducts there the examination of patients; and in September, it will go to the town of Tkuarchal.

August 24, 2012 17:00

• In Grozny, women's group wins Russian Championship in parachuting

  In Chechnya, All-Russian competitions in parachuting for the Akhmat Kadyrov Cup have been completed. The competitions were attended by athletes from various regions of Russia and paratroopers from Ukraine, Serbia, and Montenegro. In the team competitions, the best results were achieved by the women's group "Caucasus".

August 24, 2012 16:00

• All four victims of flooding in Novomikhailovsky village identified

  All four persons, perished in the flooding of the village of Novomikhailovsky of the Tuapse District of the Krasnodar Territory have been identified. This was reported today by the Southern Regional Centre of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE).

August 24, 2012 15:00

• Red Cross builds water supply facilities in South Ossetia

  The mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in South Ossetia constructs water pipe lines in the villages of the republic, both those which were affected in the event of 2008 and those which were deprived of the centralized water supply during last 20 years.

August 24, 2012 14:00

• Dagestan starts trial against persons, surrendered under guarantees of commission for militants' adaptation

  The Supreme Court of Dagestan started the trial against seven residents of the republic, who earlier surrendered under guarantees of the President of Dagestan and the commission to assist in adaptation to civilian life of persons, who decided to stop their terrorist and extremist activities.

August 24, 2012 13:00

• In Moscow, clashes between fans of "Anji" FC and Moscow FCs occur

  Late in the evening of August 23 and at night of August 24, after the football match between the "Anji" FC and the A3 FC in Moscow, several clashes occurred between supporters of the Dagestani FC and local nationalist fans of the Moscow FCs.

August 24, 2012 12:00

• In Sochi, court marshals evict family of 12 persons to street

  In Sochi, tenants of the building No. 23 in Jan Fabricius Street claim violation of their rights and attempts of using force, committed by court marshals to evict them from the house they own because of plans to build the Olympic facilities.

August 23, 2012 23:00

• Quarrel in "Harsnaqar" Restaurant started after waiter reproved Avetyan's clothes, investigators report

  The Chief Investigatory Department of the Armenian Police has presented details of the incident at the "Harsnaqar" Restaurant in Yerevan, where Vage Avetyan, the military doctor, perished as a result of fight. According to investigators, the quarrel between the staff members of the restaurant and the military doctors erupted after a waiter reproved clothes of Vage Avetyan.

August 23, 2012 22:00

• Delegation of Circassians from Turkey, Jordan and Syria arrive in Kabardino-Balkaria

  On August 23, the delegation of representatives of the Circassian Diaspora from Turkey, Jordan and Syria, consisting of 22 persons, arrived in Kabardino-Balkaria. In the office of the International Circassian Association, located in Nalchik, the delegation met the public of the republic.